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The Concept of Corporate Strategy

Business & Money

Andrews, Kenneth R.

Management & Leadership

Richard D.Irwin

Concept of Corporate Strategy

Nook Farm: Mark Twain's Hartford Circle.

Literature & Fiction

University of Washington Press

Caribbean Area -- Commerce -- History. Privateering -- History. Spain -- Colonies -- Administration.

The Spanish Caribbean: Trade and plunder, 1530-1630

Yale University Press

Privateering was a form of legal private warfare at sea in which individuals who possessed suitable ships took the opportunity offered by a war to plunder enemy commerce. In this study of privateering during the Elizabethan war with Spain, which was originally published in 1966, Dr Andrews shows that it was closely connected with trade, in particular having a stimulating effect on oceanic commerce and that it was at the time the main form of English maritime warfare. Dr Andrews begins with an account of how privateering became legal and how it was organised. He then examines the various types of venture, describing the sort of people who took part and showing how profitable it was for some, particularly the bigger merchants and the professional seamen. Two contemporary narratives are included. Finally, Dr Andrews studies the role privateering played in overseas expansion.

Elizabethan Privateering: English Privateering During the Spanish War, 1585–1603

History

Europe

Cambridge University Press

Not since 1945 has a general account of the origins of the British Empire been published, as if the demise of the empire freed us from our imperial past and historians from any obligation to digest it. Of course, it has done nothing of the kind, but it does enable the historian today to approach that past in a more critical spirit and to attempt a deeper and more detached analysis than could have been expected a generation ago. The purpose of this work is therefore not merely to recount but to explain the course of English overseas expansion and the beginning of the overseas empire; a prolonged pregnancy, culminating in a difficult birth and sickly infancy. The introductory essay discusses the forces and motives involved in the expansion movement, which is seen as being part of a wider European movement and derivative in many ways from it. The author considers the attitude and conduct of the Tudors and early Stuarts towards this fundamentally commercial movement and examines the nature and importance of sea power, the contribution of different social groups, and the relevance of religious and economic ideals as well as nationalistic sentiment. These various themes are taken up again in the narrative chapters which follow, dealing with the enterprises of exploration, trade, plunder and colonisation successively through from the early Bristol quest for 'Brasil' to the diverse ventures of the 1620s.

Trade, Plunder and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480–1630

Economics

Trade, Plunder and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480-1630 (Cambridge Paperback Library)

Ships, Money and Politics: Seafaring and Naval Enterprise in the Reign of Charles I

Drake's voyages: A re-assessment of their place in Elizabethan maritime expansion (Panther history)

Panther

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